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Synopsis: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a teenager accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She has been raised by her divorced mother Mrs. Wurtzel since she was two years old, but she misses her father and feels needy and depressive. When she joins the university, she lives with a roommate Ruby and has her sexual initiation with Noah. Her article for the local column in Crimson newspaper is awarded by Rolling Stone magazine. Lizzie becomes abusive in sex and drugs, and her existential crisis and depression increases and she hurts her friends and her mother that love her, while dating Rafe. Mrs. Wurtzel sends her to an expensive psychiatric treatment with Dr. Sterling, in spite of having difficulties paying for her medical bills and therapy sessions. After a long period of treatment under medication, and suicide attempt, Lizzie stabilizes and adjusts to the real world.

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance

Director(s): Erik Skjoldbjærg

Actors: Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams

Production: Miramax Films


IMDB:: 6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:: 28%

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Year:: 2001
: 95 min
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medication, but it's not my choice.
It's your choice.
Do you want to get off the pills?
Sweetheart, come here.
Come here, it's okay.
It's okay.
If only my life could be
more like the movies.
I want an angel to swoop down
like he does to Jimmy Stewart...
...in It's a Wonderful Life
and talk me out of suicide.
I've always waited for that one
moment of truth to set me free...
...and change my life forever.
But he won't come.
It doesn't happen that way.
All the drugs, all the therapy...
...the fights, anger, guilt,
Rafe, suicidal thoughts.
All of that was part
of some slow recovery process.
The same way I went down,
I came back up...
...gradually, and then suddenly.
The pills weren't a cure-all,
God knows...
...but they gave me
breathing space...
...which allowed me
to start writing again.
Only this time it wasn't
as if my life depended on it.

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Frank Deasy

Frank Deasy (19 May 1959 – 17 September 2009) was an Irish screenwriter. He won an Emmy Award for the television series Prime Suspect and was also nominated for his works, Looking After Jo Jo and The Grass Arena. His other works included the BBC/HBO mini-series, The Passion.Preceding his death from liver cancer on 17 September 2009, Deasy spoke in public about his condition. An appearance on RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline led to a record increase in organ donor card requests in Ireland. more…

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